If we are keeping Rosenior he needs a couple of experienced heads in his coaching staff as well as on the pitch otherwise it'll be walkies for him by Christmas.John Terry was in the academy and begging for a bigger role, Joe Shields gifted (likely insistently) the job to Calum MacFarlane, whose resume at Kinetic likely involved putting cones out and explaining to parents why they needed to pay for "bonus training". We're a damn pyramid scheme, lol

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Maresca quit on the team. Not just the SDs/owners, the team itself. He hired a power agent, made a move for personnel power (on justified reasoning) and when it didn't work he walked. He walked in part because the team was scuttling (again, that's largely on the SDs) and Maresca/Mendes calculated Maresca's summer job market would be better if he walked as the skid started rather than bottoming out and/or getting sacked. Tactically it wasn't working for him in the PL, and he wasn't developing young players. So while he was 100% right the team needed veteran reinforcement, he's not a martyr or a hero. And frankly, if I'm City and Pep walks I'd much rather go for Kompany than Maresca, so let's see if Maresca and Mendes played their cards right.

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